Top Excess Quotes Collection

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Image of Ouida
Excess always carries it's own retributions.
- Ouida
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Image of Neil Peart
Everything in moderation, with occasional excess.
- Neil Peart
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Image of Jean Baptiste Massillon
True charity is liable to excesses and transports.
- Jean Baptiste Massillon
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Image of R. A. Lafferty
An excess of science will leave none of us alive.
- R. A. Lafferty
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Image of Curnonsky
A garlic caress is stimulating. A garlic excess soporific.
- Curnonsky
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Image of James Chanos
Bubbles are best identified by credit excesses, not valuation excesses. And there's no bigger credit excess than in China.
- James Chanos
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Image of Jeremy Collier
Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess.
- Jeremy Collier
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Image of Kim Stanley
An excess of reason is itself a form of madness
- Kim Stanley
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Image of Democritus
The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
- Democritus
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Image of Jorge Posada
You gotta take care of yourself; you cant do anything in excess.
- Jorge Posada
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Image of Oscar Goodman
I drink to excess, I gamble to excess, but everyone knows it, so it's not a big deal.
- Oscar Goodman
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Image of Romain Gary
They thought I suffered from lack of exterior, when I suffered from excess of interior
- Romain Gary
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Image of Woody Harrelson
Ive always believed the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
- Woody Harrelson
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Image of Diogenes Laertius
As some say, Solon was the author of the apophthegm, "Nothing in excess.
- Diogenes Laertius
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Image of Nikki Sixx
When you've tasted excess, everything else tastes bland.
- Nikki Sixx
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Image of Ashleigh Brilliant
Somehow I reached excess without ever noticing when I was passing through satisfaction.
- Ashleigh Brilliant
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Image of Plautus
In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.
- Plautus
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Image of Seneca the Younger
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
- Seneca the Younger
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Image of William Penn
Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones.
- William Penn
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Image of John Milton
His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd.
- John Milton
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Image of Ouida
Excess always carries its own retribution.
- Ouida
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Image of Moliere
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
- Moliere
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Image of Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness.
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Image of Walt Whitman
The road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the strange.
- Walt Whitman
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Image of Edmund Burke
The love of lucre, though sometimes carried to a ridiculous excess, a vicious excess, is the grand cause of prosperity to all States.
- Edmund Burke
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Image of Miguel de Cervantes
The ass bears the load, but not the overload.
- Miguel de Cervantes
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Image of Charles Churchill
The best things carried to excess are wrong.
- Charles Churchill
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Image of Yvon Chouinard
Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward.
- Yvon Chouinard
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Image of Albert Camus
I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things.
- Albert Camus
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Image of Lydia M. Child
the excess of all good things is mischievous.
- Lydia M. Child
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Image of Mason Cooley
Austerity causes constipation; excess, diarrhea.
- Mason Cooley
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Image of Confucius
Excess weakens the spirits.
- Confucius
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Image of Publilius Syrus
In excess altercation, truth is lost.
- Publilius Syrus
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Image of Euripides
For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended.
- Euripides
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Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Image of Michael R. Burch
Abbesses' recesses are not for excesses!
- Michael R. Burch
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Image of William E. Gladstone
A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.
- William E. Gladstone
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Image of Alexander Hamilton
It is a singular advantage of taxes on articles of consumption that they contain in their own nature a security against excess. They prescribe their own limit, which cannot be exceeded without defeating the end purposed - that is, an extension of the revenue.
- Alexander Hamilton
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Image of Samuel Johnson
A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.
- Samuel Johnson
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Image of Juvenal
An excess of hoarded wealth is the death of many.
- Juvenal
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Image of Joseph Joubert
Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses!
- Joseph Joubert
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Image of Arthur Koestler
Aggressiveness is not the main trouble with the human species, but rather an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.
- Arthur Koestler
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Image of Jay Leno
According to Kim Jong-Il's biography, they say he has been constantly accused of dishonesty, drunkenness and sexual excess. So if he lived here, he could be in Congress.
- Jay Leno
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Image of David Mamet
We cannot live without trade. A society can neither advance nor improve without excess of disposable income. This excess can only be amassed through the production of goods and services necessary or attractive to the mass. A financial system which allows this leads to inequality; one that does not leads to mass starvation.
- David Mamet
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